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World Service,09 Feb 2019,53 mins

Adam McKay on directing Christian Bale in Vice

The Arts Hour

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This week the Oscar-nominated director Adam McKay discusses making Vice, the biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney. We hear from one of the most respected figures in Caribbean writing the Harvard academic, novelist and critic Jamaica Kincaid. Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, known for his dream-like films such as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is the winner of the Artes Mundi art prize. If Beale Street Could Talk and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins shares his love of music both on and off screen and actor Richard E Grant on his surprising Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me. Nikki Bedi is joined in the Arts Hour studio by the New Zealand writer Paula Morris and they’ll round up all the Oscar news with critic Rich Cline. (Photo: Christian Bale in Vice. Credit: Allstar/Annapurna Pictures)

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